Arkansas State Senator Gary Stubblefield has introduced SB 765, to move the primary for president and all other office from May to March.  Because the Arkansas petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates is tied to the date of the primary, if this bill passed, independent candidates for office other than president would be required to file their petitions in November of the year before the election.  The author of the bill has plainly given no thought to this problem.   Such a deadline would clearly be unconstitutional.  Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news about the bill.